Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

Bertram Felgenhauer bertram.felgenhauer at googlemail.com
Sat May 24 13:49:29 UTC 2014


Michael Snoyman wrote:
> I'd be concerned about having two versions of Cabal ship. I can quickly
> lead to user confusion when loading code in ghci (messages where `Foo` does
> not match `Foo`). Admittedly, most users won't be depending on the Cabal
> library themselves most of the time, but I still think it's a good idea to
> avoid the problem if possible.

I also think that shipping two versions of Cabal is a bad idea.
This would bite every user of ghc(-as-a-library), which depends
on Cabal and cannot be upgraded, as I learned a couple of days
ago while building lambdabot.

Bertram


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